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Whatever you type is immediately posted (for everyone in the "room" to see).

I thought it might be fun to meet in a given chat room at a specific time, and/or to have "guest speakers" like Del Fandrich, Larry Fine, Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston, David Nevue, etc.

~ Audio Chat and Live Presentations[/b]Same idea as the regular chat, except you can also actually "talk" over the Internet.There are lots of options for this, I've been looking at some and others have been discussing this subject. Keep in mind with Audio Chat, you don't have to talk, you can still just type. But... you could also listen to guest speakers.[/b]I've also been looking at video chat, but I thought that might be moving a little too fast for us right now :-)

~ Live Recitals[/b]This gets a little trickier.

The idea is to have a number of people in different places take turns playing live.

For the live recitals, it would probably be a lot harder to work out than just posting recording files for critique, but if it could work, it might be cool. How much bandwidth would that use? Would that be a problem?

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Originally posted by DantheMan: We should definitely schedule text chats.

For the live recitals, it would probably be a lot harder to work out than just posting recording files for critique, but if it could work, it might be cool. How much bandwidth would that use? Would that be a problem? [/b]

DantheMan,

Yes, it would be more of a challenge to set up live recitals, although I think the technology to make it easier is coming.

UKIkarus
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Did anything ever come of this? Obviously it was years ago.... but for general online playing with others (not at the same time mind you) I have used Skype for one and another I use from time to time is "RaidCall" not designed for music by any means but you can configure rooms to have a queue and a set amount of time per person (if they raise their hand to join the queue)

Often use one currently for piano/instrumentals and Karaoke on 2 channels I frequent, have not had any problems yet and with the ability to turn on "Music Mode" (essentially a built in stereo mix toggle) you can have backing or anything else playing in real-time alongside what you are playing/singing or whatever else.

Of course you can also type if preferred and you can setup any number of rooms all free and hosted by their own servers